Unable to instantiate VelocityEngine when running setup

Question

I am trying to set up Confluence on a tomcat server on openshift, I followed the instructions here https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF33/Installing+Confluence+EAR-WAR+on+Tomcat# but everytime I try to run the application it tells me that it cannot instantiate VelocityEngine.

Albert Garcia · Answer

I have the same problem with:

* Debian Squeeze 6.0.6
* JDK 1.7.0-b147
* MySQL 5.5.29
* Tomcat 7.0.35

Jira 5.2.5 (war) seems to work OK.

With confluence 5.0 beta3 this doesn't happens... :/

I've tried with velocity.properties in the install dir of confluence and rebuilding the war but doesn't work. :(

Clifford Duke2 · Answer

Looked at `velocity.properties` and changed it to this but still getting the same error for some reason.:

runtime.log.logsystem.class = com.atlassian.confluence.util.velocity.NullVelocityLogSystem

John Chin · Answer

Hi there,

Its look like your problem similar to this page, please see http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/im-trying-to-run-the-example-in-the-tutorial-on-tomcat-and-it-cant-instantiate-the-velocityengine.html

hope it helps.